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sesquilinear en · ADJ

Etymology

From sesqui- (“one and a half”) + linear; “conjugate linear” being considered metaphorically “half linear”, hence one and a half times linear, as opposed to bilinear (“linear in both variables”).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) (of a map of a complex vector space) Linear in one coordinate and conjugate linear in the other

Coordinates

bilinear

Translations (2)

pl półtoraliniowy ((mathematics) linear in one variable and conjugate linear in the other) · es sesquilineal ((mathematics) linear in one variable and conjugate linear in the other)